Improvement in wheelbarrows



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WHEELBARROW.

Patented April, 1876.

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Um ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES W. ROSE, OF BRYAN, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHEELBARROW S.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 175,761, dated April 4,1876; application filed January 31, 1876.

I ing is a specification:

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and combinationof braces to avoid strain upon the barrow-legs and support the tray ofthe barrow, as will be hereinafter explained with reference to thedrawings and specified in the claims.

Reference being had to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents aview of a wheelbarrow tilted upon one side to show the construction andarrangement of my braces, and Fig. 2 a detail of the joined braces or V-brace.

The wheelbarrow in the example shown is of the class in general useamong laborers, except as to its braces and tray-supports. The mainbrace A is of bent timber, and the grain is nowhere crossed, but followsthe curves of the brace. It is bent up from the bottom of the leg B in aline-of-beauty curve-that is to say, the brace is curved in a line theextremities of which turn in opposite directions and leave anintervening depression-until it reaches the barrow-frame G, where itcontinues to act as a support to the front end of the barrow-tray D, towhich it is bolted or otherwise fastened, as also to the outside of theframe and inside of the leg at a and b. This particular curving of thebrace A prevents it from getting in the way when the wheelbarrow is setdown upon uneven ground.

In order to prevent said main brace from straightening out or springingout of its curve when the barrow is heavily laden, I provide a brace, E,of straight timber, which is fastened by bolts or otherwise to the innerside of main brace A at c, and to the rear end of the barrow-tray, so asto perform the additional function of a support to said barrow-tray. Italso distributes the strain equally amongthe difi'erent parts of thebarrow, the time of greatest strain on a wheelbarrow being when it isdropped and let fall upon its legs.

Brace E, being independent of the leg B, it does not, therefore, have atendency to split when the heavy barrow is dropped upon the legs, as itwould if this brace E connected directly with the leg.

The braces A and E form one V- brace, which line of beauty to form adepression, whereby said brace shall be free from contact with unevenground when the barrow, is rested.

2. The combination of the brace E, independent of the barrow-leg, withmain brace A and the rear end of the tray D, as and for the purposes setforth.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in thepresence of twowitnesses.

CHARLES W. ROSE.

Witnesses:

M. M. BOOTHMAN, BARRETT E. GONKLING.

